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New Lucene 4 Functions Improve Enterprise Search Indexing

In the past, Lucene recorded only the bare minimal aggregate index statistics necessary to support its hard-wired classic vector space scoring...

0 replies - 6803 views - 03/15/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Exploring the Transactional Semantics of the Lucene API

Many users don't appreciate the transactional semantics of Lucene's APIs and how this can be useful in search applications. For starters, Lucene...

1 replies - 5488 views - 03/02/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Using Lucene in Grails

Apache Lucene is the leading open source search engine and is used in many businesses, projects and products. Lucene has sub-projects which provide...

0 replies - 7032 views - 02/28/12 by Robin Bramley in Articles

Custom Security Filtering in Solr: Based on Access Control Lists

Yonik recently wrote about “Advanced Filter Caching in Solr” where he talked about expensive and custom filters; it was left as an exercise to the...

0 replies - 5381 views - 02/23/12 by Erik Hatcher in Articles

Lucene 3.6, 4.x Get New Feature: Query Time Joining

A very handy new feature called query time joining is coming to Lucene sooner than anticipated.  While it was confirmed last month that it would be in Lucene...

0 replies - 5510 views - 02/11/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The Java 7 - Lucene Bug Controversy: The Story Behind the Story

Learn about the controversy that emerged in the early days of the Java 7 GA release because of the effect it had on Apache Lucene - from the perspective of Uwe...

3 replies - 10546 views - 02/03/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

LucidWorks Enterprise 2.0 is Now a Managed, Hosted Service

Today, Lucid Imagination releases LucidWorks Cloud, a SaaS version of their LucidWorks Enterprise platform, for general availability.  For those of you not in...

0 replies - 4222 views - 02/01/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Lucene Revolution 2012 – Call for Participation now open!

Mark your calendars today! The largest worldwide conference dedicated to Lucene and Solr will take place in...

0 replies - 10193 views - 02/01/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Indexing Chinese in Solr

Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer to Project...

0 replies - 7097 views - 01/30/12 by Jason Hull in Articles

Morphological Analysis and Named Entity Recognition in Lucene/Solr

This talk will show how the relevance of search results can be improved by using morphological analysis and named entity recognition. After briefly...

0 replies - 5017 views - 01/27/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Neo4j in the Cloud: Neo4j 1.6 GA Release

DynamoDB certainly isn't the only NoSQL store in the cloud.  Neo4j's recent release of version 1.6 now has a public beta for hosting your graph databases in...

2 replies - 4294 views - 01/25/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Use Prefix Operators instead of Boolean Operators

The following is written with Solr users in mind, but the principles apply to Lucene users as well. I really dislike the so called “Boolean Operators”...

1 replies - 4718 views - 01/24/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

Solr and Lucene Reference Guide updated for v3.5

The free Solr Reference Guide published by Lucid Imagination has been updated to 3.5 - the current release version of Solr and Lucene. The changes weren't...

2 replies - 4801 views - 01/23/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Limitations of 'ToChildBlockJoinQuery' fixed in Lucene!

In my last post I described a known limitation of BlockJoinQuery: it joins in only one direction (from child to parent documents). This can be a problem...

0 replies - 2947 views - 01/18/12 by Michael Mccandless in Tips and Tricks

Archive-It: Scaling Beyond a Billion Archival Webpages

Description of Archive-It, the Internet Archive's subscription, self-serve web archiving service, focused on the full-text search system. With nearly 200...

0 replies - 4032 views - 01/12/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos